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Cambridge Office of Manpower Affairs, MA. – 1980
In 1979, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) legislation was changed to remove income from the eligibility criteria for Title IIC upgrading and retraining programs. In order to assess the impact of this change upon CETA prime sponsor and private industry council (PIC) activities across the country, a telephone survey was made to all…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Case Studies, Employment Opportunities
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. – 1988
This conference brought together directors of research grants and research-based contracts funded by the Division of Innovation and Development of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS). The proceedings contain copies of three speeches given at the conference, along with transcripts of the question-and-answer sessions…
Descriptors: Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Disabilities, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Scorza, Margaret H. – 1989
The Computer Focused Russian Bilingual Instructional Program was a federally-funded program providing instructional and support activities for 321 Russian-speaking students of limited English proficiency at four public and two private high schools in Brooklyn, New York. The main goals of the program were to develop English proficiency and provide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Awareness
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1988
This series of hearings, the second of three on welfare reform, focuses on the following legislation: (1) the Family Security Act (S. 1511); (2) child support enforcement bills (S. 1001 and S. 869); and (3) the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Employment and Training Reorganization Act. Among the speakers and witnesses were the following:…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Support, Child Welfare, Cost Estimates
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Support Programs. – 1988
This report reviews Chapter 1 programs in North Carolina during 1986-87. Data are provided on the following topics: (1) program administration; (2) Chapter 1 programs in local education agencies; (3) program participants; (4) instruction; (5) staff; (6) expenditures; (7) training; (8) parent involvement; (9) student achievement; (10) evaluation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Educationally Disadvantaged
William T. Grant Foundation, Washington, DC. Commission on Work, Family, and Citizenship. – 1988
This report, a product of the Commission on Youth and America's Future, addresses the problem of the approximately 20 million 16- to 24-year-olds who are not likely to attend college. Although many youth without college education are successful, a large fraction are not and need help to succeed. However, the portrait of them as troubled and in…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Sutherland, Ned B.; And Others – 1987
The Michigan Council on Vocational Education evaluated the coordination between vocational education and the service deliverers of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in the state in order to comply with the mandates of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. The purpose of the study was to describe the structure and job training…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Office of Evaluation and Dissemination. – 1978
Based on data available through June 30, 1978, this report covers all programs administered by the Office of Education (OE). Introductory sections describe OE's evaluation strategies (involving impact and process studies, technical assistance, and identification of effective programs); present highlights from OE evaluation studies in fiscal year…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Bessey, Barbara L.; And Others – 1982
This volume contains the "Final Report" of a study commissioned to document how States met the requirements of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended in 1978, and to identify management practices and documents that can be used by States to facilitate their management of Title I programs and those of…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Federal Programs, Federal Regulation, Formative Evaluation
Kitabchi, Gloria; Petry, John R. – 1982
An evaluation of the Nuclear Skill Related Training Program at Memphis State University was conducted to identify possible motivational and attitudinal variables that may contribute to the retention-attrition rates of Job Corps students (40 percent) admitted to the program compared to non-Job Corps students who are migrant workers (2 percent). The…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Vogler, Daniel E.; Manley, Katherine K. – 1982
An overview on employment and training as it relates to higher education is presented as part of the American Council on Education's Higher Education/Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Project, which was supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Attention is directed to the linkage between higher education…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Credit Courses, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy
Cohen, Pennie; Nance, Don W. – 1982
The way in which student services can meet the needs of a small segment of the student body who need extensive and intensive developmental work is considered as part of the American Council on Education's Higher Education/Comprehensive Employment and Training ACT (CETA) Project, which was supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Case Studies, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation. – 1981
In this report detailed summaries are provided of 108 Federal programs set up to provide funds for individual projects in elementary and secondary education, postsecondary education, and special categories (bilingual and minority education, special education and rehabilitation services, vocational and adult education, and educational research and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Compensatory Education, Educational Legislation, Educational Research
Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. – 1982
This source book describes 107 projects administered by the U.S. Department of Education under the Pre-College Teacher Development in Science (PTDS) Program from 1980-82. Under the program, grants of up to $50,000 were made to colleges, universities, and museums to assist them in providing opportunities to elementary teachers for continuing…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science, Environmental Education
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Congressional Research Service. – 1985
Background information on the Higher Education Act and issues and options for each title of the Act are considered in this report, which was prepared to help the U.S. Congress in its consideration of the reauthorization legislation. Included are basic data about higher education in the United States and an overview of research and development…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Continuing Education, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged
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